Deeply frustrating knowing how often I’ve played Casandra in my career, warning people about bad ideas only to have them be implemented anyway, and then realizing that I don’t even get to feel any joy or vindication when people come around years later.

Are there any (accessible) articles on how programming language design influences *what* gets built with them, particularly articles that contrast the needs of commerce vs. the needs of communities and the public commons?

The Women in Compilers and Tools Virtual Meetup will feature Theresa Foley with "Taking the Slang Shading Language From Research to Production". Join us this Thursday, 6pm PDT meetup.com/meetup-group-i… Theresa Foley

Our real-time path tracers depend on many of Slang's advanced language features, and we co-design Slang language and renderers together. Come see Theresa Foley talk about the journey of growing Slang from research to production.

(1/10) Slides + Recording of Petrik Clarberg’s GDC/GTC real-time path tracing research talk are now available online #GDC2022 #GTC22 research.nvidia.com/publication/20…

We've been co-researching shading language and real-time rendering innovation for years. Theresa Foley's recent talk describes the Slang journey from research to production.

(1/5) Shading language and real-time rendering innovation are inextricably tied together. In this new talk, Slang researcher, Yong He, describes the details of new language features in Slang, and how they are used by real-time path tracing researchers. youtu.be/DUOn9ek0bdI

Be the cyberpunk dystopia you want to see in the world.

It is traditional for programmers to measure our ages in hexadecimal. Today I became 2B, so it only seemed appropriate…

New #NVIDIAResearch paper: SLANG.D: Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming: shows how a single language serves as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. Collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC San Diego, & University of Washington. 🧵 1/2 nvda.ws/46H4p14

Bringing autodiff to shaders is a challenging task. It takes years of effort to design the language that integrates differentiation as a first-class citizen, allowing autodiff to work seamlessly with custom types, arbitrary control flow, generics and dynamic dispatch.

Slang is an open-source, cross-platform shading language that targets D3D, Vulkan, GLSL, CUDA and C++. Today, it is fully differentiable, which means you can autodiff your existing shader code!

See our blog post here: developer.nvidia.com/blog/different…

The Slang project is seeking experienced GPU/graphics/AI compiler programmers who want to be part of the development of an ecosystem for AI-powered real-time graphics. My DMs are open.